Post subject: September 2007 is Eighth Warmest on Record for Contiguous US

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:47 am

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[url=http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071016_ncdcseptwrapup.html]September 2007 is Eighth Warmest on Record for Contiguous United States Drought Worsens Across Southeast and Tennessee Valley
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Temperatures in September 2007 were the eighth warmest on record, hot enough to break 1,000 daily high records across the United States, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

The heat also helped spread the worsening drought to almost half of the contiguous U.S., with conditions across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Tennessee Valley hardest hit. The global surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record for September, and the extent of Arctic Sea ice reached its lowest amount in September since satellite measurements began in 1979, shattering the previous record low set in 2005.